Anyone Know why no single drive TBolt enclosures?

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I think it's only something to worry about if you are regularly getting impatient while transferring 100 GB to 400 GB of 4k video from your Red One. You can get triple the speed comparing two or more drives in RAID 0 in a Thundercrap enclosure to a single drive in USB 3. A single drive is usually plenty fast for over 90% of users.

ROUNDUP: USB 3.0 Bus-Powered Single Drive Storage Devices

[jdc]

From that same link:

We connected TWO FirmTek dLite USB 3.0 bus-powered enclosures (each with 1TB Samsung 840 EVO) to the two USB 3.0 ports of the 2013 MacBook Pro Retina. After striping them (RAID 0), we measured 795MB/s READ, 764MB/s WRITE (AJA System 16GB sequential test). That's faster than the dual SSD bus-powered Thunderbolt Akitio Palm RAID that tested at 712MB/s READ, 527MB/s WRITE.

[mikebw]

OK, so two separate USB 3 controllers and SSDs RAIDed are faster than one Thunderbolt controller with two SSDs? A rather ambiguous comparison it seems.

[ka jowct]

Seagate used to sell one. The Thunderbolt base is detachable.

[silvarios]

mikebw wrote:
OK, so two separate USB 3 controllers and SSDs RAIDed are faster than one Thunderbolt controller with two SSDs? A rather ambiguous comparison it seems.

Not really, because the OP is asking about a single drive Thunderbolt case anyway. In that case, there isn't much difference in throughput to warrant the significant increase in cost and frankly the comparison of two single drives in a RAID versus a dual drive case in RAID is still pretty apt. Thunderbolt is expensive for the use case suggested.

[rjmacs]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
I think it's only something to worry about if you are regularly getting impatient while transferring 100 GB to 400 GB of 4k video from your Red One. You can get triple the speed comparing two or more drives in RAID 0 in a Thundercrap enclosure to a single drive in USB 3. A single drive is usually plenty fast for over 90% of users.

ROUNDUP: USB 3.0 Bus-Powered Single Drive Storage Devices

I think the takeaway from this (and lots of other) benchmarking tests is that not all USB3 enclosures are equal. A high-end, high-speed USB3 case ain't cheap (though cheaper still than TB).

[Lew Zealand]

If you get a UASP-enabled case, it should do 420 MB/sec. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.

I use a $12 Star-Tech USB3-SATA adapter with SSDs and it does exactly that. Now that's just a wire with SATA on one end and USB3 on the other because I'm swapping out drives on a daily basis, so you may want the case version:

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-2-5in...B00E1JAB3M

Looks like you'll have to pony up $21. Oh, and $60 for a 240GB SSD.

Enjoy!

[silvarios]

Lew Zealand wrote:
If you get a UASP-enabled case, it should do 420 MB/sec. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.

I use a $12 Star-Tech USB3-SATA adapter with SSDs and it does exactly that. Now that's just a wire with SATA on one end and USB3 on the other because I'm swapping out drives on a daily basis, so you may want the case version:

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-2-5in...B00E1JAB3M

Looks like you'll have to pony up $21. Oh, and $60 for a 240GB SSD.

Enjoy!

Yep.